[Ecls-list] ECL build issues

[Dr. David Kirkby]

Dr. David Kirkby wrote:

> IMHO, the use of LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a real pain - it can cause all sorts 
> of problems. I had one yesterday, where the standard install of ssh was 
> generating a really odd error. I googled for it, and found it was caused 
> by LD_LIBRARY_PATH. Sure enough, when I removed it, so ssh behaved ok. 
> IMHO, no problem should ever need it. I can't see the security issue 
> myself. Unless an admit sets LD_LIBRARY_PATH globally, I cant see how 
> any user can do any damage to anyone else, no matter how they mess 
> around with dodgy libraries
> 
> 
> dave


I managed to reproduce this. This is on a Sun SPARC

drkirkby at smudge:[~] $ ssh kirkby at t2
ld.so.1: ssh: fatal: relocation error: file /usr/bin/ssh: symbol 
ENGINE_load_pk11: referenced symbol not found
Killed
drkirkby at smudge:[~] $ echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH
/usr/local/lib:/opt/csw/lib
drkirkby at smudge:[~] $ unset LD_LIBRARY_PATH
drkirkby at smudge:[~] $ ssh kirkby at t2
Password:


So something in /usr/local/lib or /opt/csw/lib is messing up the 
standard SSH. It appears to be related to something in 
/opt/csw/lib/libz.so.1. Some files were copied to there, so it does ot 
surprise me there are some broken libraries in there.

One the whole, LD_LIBRARY_PATH is a pain.